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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] what's the correct format for bugs containing package name and version?
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:10:41
Message-Id: 20150306111024.08786e9e@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] what's the correct format for bugs containing package name and version? by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 20:01:23 +0100
2 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > I'm trying to find the best fix for
5 > <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535814>
6 >
7 > Currently file-stabilization-bugs.py uses the '%s: stabilization
8 > request' % cpv format.
9 >
10 > Here are some options I see:
11 >
12 > a) keep '%s:' as is
13 > b) change to just '%s'
14 > c) change to '=%s:'
15 > d) change to '=%s'
16 > e) something else
17 >
18 > What is your preference? Let's agree on something and avoid
19 > unnecessary changes on bugzilla.
20
21 Put a space before the colon (or any delimiter you happen to prefer).
22 Both cpv:XYZ and cpv::ABC have a special meaning. If nothing else it
23 improves legibility through the simple application of whitespace.
24
25 As for the equal sign, portage should really simply support leaving it
26 out and interpret '=' as the default. Functionally there should be no
27 difference between '=a/b-c' and 'a/b-c' anyway, and yet it trips up
28 emerge.
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31 jer